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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Is there a program to convert AHDL to VHDL?

I have an ancient EP1K design mostly in AHDL with one VHDL sub-module. Is there any way to automatically convert it to VHDL?
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12 years ago

Believe it or not, I did search on the subject before posting this. Apparently not in the right forums.

After posting, the forum software found several potential answers. They pretty much boil down to:

1) rewrite it all yourself in VHDL

2) Use Xilinx's xport.exe to convert it.

I'm trying to avoid 1), and xport chokes because it expects ALL of the project hierarchy to be AHDL. I have one VHDL module in the project. So it errors.

I'm a little surprised that Altera hasn't written a converter. But maybe they are afraid people would use it and flee to other vendors.

So, if anyone has a good solution to this, please reply.

~Ken